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- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
- Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
- There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
- The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
- In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
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